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Dusty by Frank Dalby DavisonReview by: Donal LinehanThe Irish Monthly, Vol. 76, No. 903 (Sep., 1948), pp. 431-432Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20515869 .

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Dusty. By Frank Dalby Davison. London : Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. 1948. 8/6.

Dusty is a dog with a wild strain in his blood. Sometimes the

urge of the hunt surges up in him and sends him out into the bush

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at night. Later the liking for his master's companionship gets the better of him and he returns again to his farmyard. EventuaUy he turns sheep-kiUer and is marked down for shooting but he escapes and Uves the life of a wild dog.

None of the sentimenta?ty which spoils most books about dogs is in this story. Dusty does not feel in a human way, he is a dog only.

What wiU interest most dog owners is the convincing analysis of the

sensations of a dog when he is on the hunt, and of his trained devotion

to his master.

The background of the AustraUan bush through which Dusty moves

is given with fine feeling and a careful eye, a background of scrub

and taU grasses, of scurrying animals and wild night cries.

It is a pity that we have nothing in this line of writing to our own

background. DONAL LlNEHAN

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